After the discussion in the Internal Affairs Hall that lasted for more than twenty days, Jiang Yuebai signed a fifty-year guest elder contract with Zhuge Shou and returned to the residence arranged for her by the Zhuge family.
Zhuge Shou asked her to rest for half a month and walk around, and then start working after she became familiar with the situation in various places in the Zhuge family.
The residence is located on the lake west of Zhuge's inner city. It is a small island covered with bamboo forests. The island was artificially reclaimed and is not very large with only a small courtyard.
There are other similar islands around, all inhabited by elders from various halls of the Zhuge family.
The courtyard is fully equipped with necessary facilities, and there are mechanisms and small armors everywhere to facilitate life. They are responsible for taking care of miscellaneous chores in the courtyard.
After teasing the row of wooden birds on the windowsill, Jiang Yuebai sat at the table, looking at the lush green bamboo outside the window, and began to plan what to do next.
First of all, of course, is to accumulate Zhuge family's contribution points and exchange them for Zhuge family's spiritual refining techniques.
Regarding this, Zhuge Shou had already promised her that as long as she could accumulate enough contribution points, she could exchange for all the skills of the Zhuge family, but she must not pass them on to others.
Jiang Yuebai was really surprised by such generosity and lack of defense.
However, the required contribution points seemed to her like an astronomical figure at the moment, and she also needed to pay contribution points if she wanted to learn things related to Yin-Yang School in the Zhuge family.
This thing is called contribution points for elders like them, and credits for disciples like Bai Jiuyou.
In addition to the fixed monthly salary, there are three ways for guest elders to obtain additional contribution points: completing tasks issued by the Zhuge family, researching new armor and secret techniques, and teaching.
She can entrust the task to her clone. There are Xiao Yao and Yan Hongyu in the Lotus Cave. With a little training, it should not be a problem for them to help make some simple Yanjia parts.
Before coming here, she had roughly looked around and found that the task with the most contribution points in the Internal Affairs Hall was to supply various types of armor to Ziwei and Taiwei Star Alliance for use in resisting the demons.
The people of Zhuge family were very smart. They disassembled various parts and let the disciples below collect them. Then they gathered all the parts to the Armor Making Institute for unified assembly, which greatly improved efficiency.
There is currently no upper limit or deadline for these tasks. The more the better, and they are charged by piece. It is enough to leave an avatar to take care of Yan Hongyu and the little monsters and beasts in the Lotus Cave.
If you need to cut materials, find Jixiang and Shuzaizi. If you need to calcine, find Xiaolu. When they become proficient in the later stage, she won't need to keep her clone and can continue to do other things.
She will ignore the inspiration she needs to study the new Yanjia and secret techniques for now and consider it after she finishes reading the millions of books in the Secret Academy.
Of course, she needs to prepare for teaching, and she also has to go to class herself.
The rules for earning contribution points by teaching are quite interesting. Even if you teach every day for thirty days a month, you may not be able to get full contribution points. You also need scores from your disciples.
Out of 10 points, you need 6 points to pass to get the designated contribution points. After that, every additional point will double the contribution points.
This is a two-way thing. Disciples need the elders to score them to gain credits, and elders also need the disciples to score them to gain contribution points.
Jiang Yuebai thinks this method is very good. Only when everyone restrains each other can they all make progress.
"I haven't taught others for a long time. The previous Tianyan Sect's teaching method of telling adventure stories while teaching can be revived! We also need to think of a few more interesting ways. When the clone has no tasks, he can also go to class together to strive for the shortest time and obtain the most contribution points."
She didn't have to worry about Bai Jiuyou at all. They had agreed before joining the Zhuge family that Bai Jiuyou had to earn everything she needed on her own and was not allowed to ask her for money.
When the child grows up, he or she must be sent out to learn to be independent and get good training so that he or she can help support the family in the future.
Jiang Yuebai released three clones. The four identical versions of her sat around the table, assigned tasks to each of them, and started to get busy.
"It seems that the only classes I can take are those of Zhuge Ziying and Chan Ling Zhenjun. They are the only two true Yin-Yang masters in the Zhuge family. They teach things related to Yin-Yang. The rest needs to be self-taught."
As the sun rises and the moon sets, the four Jiang Yuebais are busy at the table day and night, and they never get tired of it.
Jiang Yuebai reorganized what he had learned from the previous discussion in the Internal Affairs Hall, benefited a lot from it, and was inspired by many ideas. He also found the direction for the transformation of the puppet clone. He only needed to continue to improve the transformation drawings of the core mechanism.
It is said that the giant bronze puppet in the square of the Internal Affairs Hall is at the level of a post-natal spiritual treasure. She really wants to take it apart and learn about its internal structure.
Bear it!
Jiang Yuebai also categorized and recorded the new questions, preparing to go to the Secret Academy to look up books and consult other elders later.
During the breaks, Jiang Yuebai would still go to have a "heart-to-heart talk" with the dream demon in the Lotus Cave Heaven. Perhaps because they had talked so many times, the dream demon was no longer as irritable and resistant as before.
Taming it is just around the corner.
But there was still no response from Anan, and no one knew what he was busy with. He didn't even have time to enter the dream state to practice.
Ten days later, Jiang Yuebai finally arranged all the chores.
In the Lotus Cave, Yan Hongyu cried as she buried her head in her studies. She didn't understand why she, a ghost cultivator with no life limit who could just lie there and absorb Yin energy every day, should learn how to make偃甲.
But under pressure from Jiang Yuebai's clone, and seeing that Jixiang and Xiaolu beside her were both obedient and had no complaints, she could only obey.
Jiang Yuebai went to the Internal Affairs Hall alone. On the way, he saw several disciples of the Zhuge family, all of whom were talking about Fan Mingshan taking the initiative to resign as a guest elder and leaving the Zhuge family.
There was also Zhuge Ziying, who was also punished by the Supreme Elder to try facing the wall at the bottom of the tower.
When Jiang Yuebai arrived at the Internal Affairs Hall, she handed in the class schedule she had arranged. After reading it, the head steward of the Internal Affairs Hall stared in surprise and couldn't believe it.
Master Wangshu, don’t you plan to take a rest
Thirty days in a month, classes every day
After confirming with Jiang Yuebai again and again, the chief steward of the Internal Affairs Hall posted the class timetable with trembling hands and waited for the next disciples to choose their courses.
In the previous assessment in the Trial Tower, Jiang Yuebai had already exposed her two spiritual powers, so she simply stopped hiding them and took out two human-shaped armors that she had just made in front of the chief steward of the Internal Affairs Hall.
Yanjia is not complicated. It looks exactly like her and has all the basic functions. There is no deliberate attempt to conceal Yanjia's identity.
As long as they are within the inner city, Jiang Yuebai's spiritual sense is enough to control two clones at the same time.
The chief steward of the Internal Affairs Hall stared in astonishment as the three Jiang Yuebai left the hall and went in three directions.
One clone went to the Secret Academy to read books, one clone went to prepare for her first class as a teaching elder, and the original body went to find Chan Ling Zhenjun, who taught the Yin-Yang School, to learn and ask for advice.
Little did people know that Jiang Yuebai had another avatar who was silently completing the armor-making task. When she handed in the task, the chief steward of the Internal Affairs Hall was greatly shocked.
The chief steward of the Internal Affairs Hall held down his shaking hands, and thinking of the genius little blind man who was nearly driving his disciples crazy recently, he inexplicably developed a feeling that a storm was about to come, and that things were going to change for the Zhuge family.
(End of this chapter)